[ 2021-02-14 ]

CEO of the Bluegrass Group Ltd, Kwadwo Darko-Mensah popularly referred to as Onasis

CEO of Bluegrass Limited Kwadwo Darko-Mensah ‘Onasis’ arrested, detained
The Chief Executive Officer of the Bluegrass Group
Ltd, Kwadwo Darko-Mensah popularly referred to as
Onasis has been arrested by officials of the
National Investigations Bureaus (NIB) to assist in
an ongoing investigations as a suspect,
MyNewsGh.com can confirm.

The NIB, formerly the Bureau of National
Investigations (BNI) arrested the businessman who
is a known sympathizer of the ruling New Patriotic
Party to assist in investigation over a very
serious matter.


Mr. Darko-Mensah Onasis is the Local Agent of an
international company, Cornfield Group Ltd which
was mandated in 2019 to deliver a total of
eight-hundred and fifty-three thousand (853,000)
pieces of mathematical sets at a cost of ?75 per
unit by the Ministry of Education in September
2019 which was neither delivered on scheduled or
in full, MyNewsGh.com was informed.

The mathematical sets was supposed to be given to
students for the 2020 WASSCE. Because of this, the
contract was treated as “urgent” and sole
sourced in September 2019 to the company in
addition to a tax waiver of $3.6million duly
approved by parliament.



No student received the “math sets” throughout
the WASSCE for 2020.



The Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) for
example questioned the validity of the sole
sourcing procedure adopted and the 75 Ghana cedis
cost because cannot be classified as an urgent
need of the WASSCE candidates now.

At ?75 per mathematical set, the total contract
came to ?63,975,675. Blueglass Limited failed to
deliver within the agreed time. It later issued
PR-statements announcing it had delivered “first
consignment” without stating any figure, even
long after the WASSCE was over.

It is alleged that officers of the NIB arrested
Kwadwo Darko-Mensah in relation to the contract.

Vetting Pop up

The issue of the Mathematical sets contract and
the arrest and detention of CEO of Bluegrass Ltd
Kwadwo Darko-Mensah came up during the vetting of
Mathew Opoku-Prempeh with the former Education
Minister disowning Mr. Darko-Mensah, claiming he
“didn’t know him from anywhere”, a claim
insiders say could make the minister-designate
liable to perjury.

Mathew Opoku Prempeh struggled to answer questions
posed on the maths set matter by NDC MP Alhassan
Suhuyini. Opoku Prempeh attempted to deflect blame
to his deputy Adu Twum over the Mathematical sets
contracts after Dr. Adu Twum in his vetting said
he had no answer for the question on the
Mathematical sets.

Source - MyNewsGh.com

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